Davide - "Ciao Loris"
Loris - "Hey, where are you?"
Davide - "Well… I…
...I drove it"
Loris - "Soccia" (bolognese for "holy shit")
Davide - "It has been absurd"
Loris - "Good lord"
Davide - "Really absurd
also because it was raining so...
Mamma mia, it has been a terrible defloration"
Davide - "Because, ok, it clearly is a really particular car
and you feel it from the beginning"
"It's different from the others that I have ever driven"
"So on the wet track, it was also a bit dark because we were late:
it was nearly the sunset"
"Alone in the car"
"It's... special.. a really special car"
"I drove the Diablo before so it was on another planet"
Loris - "Yes"
Davide - "On the wet track she was untamable... all the weight on the back,
she tried to kill me 1000 times"
"While the Bugatti was there: light, precise... Cool"
Loris - "Well yeah, if you also consider that is old school,
it's a 1989-1990 project,
with mechanical differentials..."
"I would have liked to see the car conditions but
as you talked about it to me, I was expecting that,
exiting the corners in that way,
it's safe..."
"It's a great car"
Davide - "Astonishing"
Loris - "We are still talking about 20 years ago"
Davide - "Obvious"
Loris - "Even with that power
it doesn't need electronic helps:
it has a great motility, it's glued to the road...
and it's like to
cool... things that satisfy you...
incredible"
I'm not really sure
this is really happening
I'm driving a Bugatti EB110
Are you kidding me?
What could this be in the early 90s?
It's so mechanically refined
that leaves you
unarmed
"4 turbos, 60 valves, all wheel drive
Ferrari tried to make an AWD car 2-3 times but it has never been produced"
"We aimed for the carbon frames
than the lightweight aluminum body panels
the engine was a V12 with 5 valves per cylinder
made up of aluminum and magnesium, really light"
My..
..god
"In the engine there was, at the same time, all the transmission
to have the all wheel drive layout
An astonishing engine block that permitted
to built something extraordinary in our factory
We didn't take a Chevrolet motor, a Buick frame and glued all together"
"We did a Bugatti from A to Z"
"From the first blank sheet of paper until the 9000 pieces that make up this car"
The all-wheel-drive system paired with mechanical differentials
works
inch by inch and I can fell everything,
ALL the mechanics underneath me
is doing a great job
The track is so wet and slimy
full of puddles
Under braking it tries to slip between my hands
The 4 turbos can't wait to get me in troubles on the corner's exit
"It was a car with a 2550mm wheelbase so it was compact, really short... difficult to build
The short wheelbase choice was made to give it agility
direction changes, very rapid, easy to drive on mountain roads
"Then, when it snowed and it was wet, we did incredible things:
We drove it uphill on the ski slopes with a car this powerful"
"It also did a speed record on ice and set 297 km/h on that slope
He screamed, it was interesting to see him driving while screaming like crazy"
"He was terrified the car would have swerved, but it was as on the rails"
It pushes a lot on the curve exit
Now that the tyres are a bit hotter,
it grips better on the exit
and when it grips...
you relished as it came out of the factory yesterday
"Even back then we did the Nurburgring in 7'44 which still is
a reference time for today's cars, considering we set it with the Michelin XX3s"
"We did the speed record with the natural gas with a normal GT with 550 bhp.. a "weak" car"
"The goal was to reach 300 km/h with a car powered by natural gas
but after we homologated it at 344,7 km/h"
"We set the record in a heartbeat, with no wastes of time"
"And then there was the SuperSport, lighter and with more performance
where the homologated max speed was 351 km/h..."
"Think about how many years have passed, numbers that speak for themselves
There's no opinion on this"
It would be a great GT car for today's standards
This is not so simple to obtain
The unique thing...
I cannot believe I'm drifting a Bugatti EB110! I can't believe it!
Even if I would tell myself about it, I wouldn't believe either
I have to hold myself from pushing the throttle as I would
cause the track is in really bad conditions
but.. god... what a thing!
It's a car that I care about
She, and all the men's history who built it, drove it, tested it and bought it
This is really a 4-wheeled miracle...
In the end what I feared happened: I had to say a billion of things about this car,
after many researches done for the Bugatti special a year ago,
I finally succeeded in driving one
The expectations and adrenalin charge didn't let me sleep yesterday night
I drank 6 bitters on the hotel counter before laying on the bed:
terrible idea, because I couldn't forget its 4 turbos even at the dawn
Since I had too much to say, I knew I wouldn't have said anything
The car cut the words from my lips, did you see?
It seems like I'm driving a car I don't know
You wouldn't say I spent months and months to prepare myself for her, but it's true
I would have liked to talk about the driving position
that is different from Ferrari and Lamborghini and it's near the GT idea
with the straight back even for the taller ones
the arms not so stretched even in the more demanding operations, great pedals,
great steering and gear shift handle, the touch of nearly every material in the inside is a satisfaction
but above all the sensation to be an integral part of a formidable machinery
When the arm joins the shift, with a single movement the left leg dig down the dashboard
and the high revs engine blows out the pressured air
and seemed that that sound came straight from the driver's heart,
catching breath between the thrusts of the quad turbo V12
I would have liked to talk about the engine, a unique unit even today
with an unmatched charm and with at least twice the potential of the GT
Stanzani started to work on this mechanics for a project that had with Ferruccio Lamborghini
They wanted to return making cars after 10 years they haven't heard each other
They found again the old entourage, Pedrazzi included
and then with Artioli the project took the Bugatti name
losing Ferruccio that remained to watch between his vineyards
and further lost Stanzani and Gandini that didn't share the same vision of the car with the president
and it was Nicola Materazzi, the Stratos/288 GTO/F40 dad, who worked on the mechanics
and Giampaolo Benedini, the Campogalliano's factory architect,
who overturned Gandini's design to make it as we know it today
From Artioli's point of view, the prototype made by Stanzani and Gandini was too Lamborghin-ish
and didn't trust the frame of the first three prototypes
as he didn't trust the cuneiform design, so loved by Gandini
Let's add I've never heard so many ex-employees moved for a job they lose, even after 20 years
I think that there's no car that hold many restless souls as this one
including the pitied Vittecoq
and the one who would have become one of the greatest tester ever: Loris Bicocchi
"The day I sat in the first prototype and drove it on a road from Campogalliano to Carpi
I realized I made the right choice..."
"After making the first three Bugatti prototypes, I left"
"Stanzani and his gang made a partition of the torque equals to the weight distribution: 40-60
and Vittecoq complained about that, so an afternoon I locked myself in the office
I told the secretary I wasn't there for anyone
and I'll do the math...
and from my results the best solution was 28-72
The car was ready, the tester drove the 27-73,
he came to me and said "don't touch anything, it's perfect"
Obviously as always I prefer the baptisms of fire
(or of water in this case)
When the turbos blow... oh god
This could be one of the most
memorable days of my young life
I think I feel
a real sexual desire for this car
It seems a good GT car
composed and polite...
until you realize the thrust isn't the one it seems
then... calmly,
...this happens
7.500 rpm
There's only
a broken-hearted supercar
and it's the
Bugatti EB110
Loris - "I'm still testing my Bugattona (Chiron),
she gives me great satisfactions and I'm happy"
"Today I stopped at 380 km/h but
If I risked and go beyond the recklessness to the pure madness"
"When you see the whitened room with -2 °C
"It couldn't melt because this morning we woke up with -6 °C"
"You can accelerate, accelerate.. and it goes straight, I mean... I'm happy"
"Let's go eating 2 tigelle, a pizza, something like that"
"I really want to eat Italian, Bolognese... You can imagine"
"Ok Davide, I wish you a good evening and we keep in touch"
"I will come down for Christmas, 100%, we'll drink some of ...
How is your whiskey called?"
Davide - "The Black Label"
Loris - "Exactly"
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